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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern
I believe that converting from one electronic format to another causes problems. In a recent discussion on this forum, one of the authors mentioned that each time he converts from say for example ePub to Mobi, he or someone else has to proofread the entire document again because in the process of electronic conversion, typographical, typesetting, and other errors occur.
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This is why I'm looking for what would be suitable as a
"master format". The XHTML component of ePub is not rigid enough. The DTBook component looks better (and easier to validate as XML). TEI is used more often in humanities, and DITA offers non-linear flexibility.
But a "master format" is going to have to be relatively rigid in its makeup because the purpose of a so-called "master format" would be to prevent or minimize these errors. Even something as simple as
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<span class="dropcap">M</span>obileread
can cause problems by breaking searches for "mobileread" (even though it's not supposed to).